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SumHes: The Penn World Table, v. 5

Description

A panel of 125 observations from 1960 to 1985

total number of observations : 3250

observation : country

country : World

Usage

data(SumHes)

Arguments

Format

A data frame containing :
year
the year
country
the country name (factor)
opec
OPEC member?
com
communist regime?
pop
country's population (in thousands)
gdp
real GDP per capita (in 1985 US dollars)
sr
saving rate (in percent)

Source

Online supplements to Hayashi (2000). http://fhayashi.fc2web.com/datasets.htm

References

Hayashi, F. (2000) Econometrics, Princeton University Press, chapter 5, pp. 358--363.

Summers, R. and A. Heston (1991) “The Penn World Table (mark 5): An expanded set of international comparisons, 1950--1988”, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 29, pp. 229--256.